U.S. Air Force building supercomputer from PS3s

[mikejet]

I hope they keep their receipt! They might want to return them once they find out how hard they are to program for!

In all seriousness, it would have been cheap to goto to Fry's and just build a bunch of PC's than to do this. Or goto IBM directly.

[KingBing]

Originally Posted by mikejet

I hope they keep their receipt! They might want to return them once they find out how hard they are to program for!

Ohh but its worth it my friend

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by KingBing

Ohh but its worth it my friend

I have one and to play games and movies it's worth it but to do something like this, would have been cheaper to build their own network of computers all running Linux/Unix.

[cokelover]

lol, the staff probably play games and watch blu's on them when they're "on R&R"

[metalgeargreed]

Originally Posted by mikejet

I hope they keep their receipt! They might want to return them once they find out how hard they are to program for!

In all seriousness, it would have been cheap to goto to Fry's and just build a bunch of PC's than to do this. Or goto IBM directly.

1. They are Air Force. I think they know what they are doing.
2. You really think you can build a computer that does what the PS3 does for less than $300? If so, let me know the secret.

[curse]

Originally Posted by metalgeargreed

1. They are Air Force. I think they know what they are doing.
2. You really think you can build a computer that does what the PS3 does for less than $300? If so, let me know the secret.

doesnt mean squat... military also thinks bose is a nice company.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by mikejet

In all seriousness, it would have been cheap to goto to Fry's and just build a bunch of PC's than to do this. Or goto IBM directly.

I don't know how old the article is, but just to put it in perspective, my BIL is a computer engineering professor and his grad student did the same thing back in 2007. It was no where near the scale, (I think it was 2-3 PS3s) but it was the cheapest way to get cell processors and their processing power at the time. Google Cell and numerical analysis and you will find many papers on it. Simply because of the core/SPU structure they end up being a lot more performing then other chips